"With twonotes, the creative
possibilities are endless and you can really start dialling in the tones
your hear in your head," says marketing manager, Andy Allen. "Choose
from a wide range of guitar and bass cab models based on classics such
as the Marshall 4x12, Fender 2x12 or Ampeg Fridge, with more tones
downloadable from Torpedo Remote if needed. You can even customise
everything from the room type, microphone model and placement too, and
once you're happy with your sound, you can store your favourite presets
on board Sono and play them in standalone mode at any time - without the
need for a computer."

With near zero latency, Sono doesn't get in the way of
creativity. Monitor mix allows blending between the guitar input signal
and DAW playback, ensuring delay-free recording, playback and
monitoring, enabling the artist to stay in the creative zone with none
of the latency problems you get when tracking with software.

In addition, Audient encourages Sono users to integrate their
existing pedalboard. Andy explains, "Plug in your favourite distortion,
reverb and delay pedals directly into Sono's D.I, dial up a tone and
instantly start recording or jamming without the need to mic up and play
through a noisy amp (or annoy your neighbours).

"However, if you do want to record in the more traditional
sense, Sono will always record a clean D.I signal, so you can capture
your performances as creativity strikes and reamp through your favourite
hardware amps later without the need to buy a dedicated re-amp box,"
says Andy.

Guillaume Pille, twonotes owner, has been a fan of Audient
for some time. "Audient interfaces have long been in our list of
benchmark products used to try out our plugins and hardware units," he
says. "Today, the whole twonotes team is very excited to present what we
think is the perfect interface, not only for the guitarist and bassist,
but also for any musician who wants to bring colour into his
recordings."

Alongside the more guitar-centric features, Sono is a
powerful interface in its own right, with two Audient console mic pres
for studio quality recordings, expandability up to 10 inputs via ADAT
for recording drums, class leading converters as well as the unique 'to
valve' feature. "Try routing vocal microphones or synths through the
classic valve preamp, analogue EQ and twonotes processing and start
creating crazy new sounds or simply add that classic analogue warmth to
your recordings," adds Andy.

"Sono is all about developing creativity and providing an
easy-to-use gateway into the world of professional audio recording. It
really is a fun tool for guitarists and engineers alike. With
Sono anything is possible."

Sono is expected to ship in the first quarter of 2019 and will retail at USA MAP $449.

NEW YORK—(January 10, 2019)—The John Lennon Educational Tour Bus (The
Lennon Bus), the premier non-profit 501(c)(3) state-of-the-art mobile
production facility that provides hands-on experiences for students of
all ages, makes its return to the 2019 NAMM Show at the Anaheim
Convention Center with special guests Elle King, a two-time Grammy
nominee and multi-platinum recording artist, and Derek Smalls, the
bassist formerly of the band formerly known as Spinal Tap. Kicking off
at NAMM and chock full of new gear and equipment, the Lennon Bus will
stop in cities across America throughout the year.

“Per
Lennon Bus tradition, the 2019 national tour starts with the music
loving crowd at NAMM, who motivates us to begin the year-long journey to
inspire young people across the U.S.,” said Co-Founder and Executive
Director Brian Rothschild. “Elle King and Derek Smalls will certainly
bring a new electricity to the Imagine Party and having their support
helps keep the focus on students.”

Throughout
the 2019 NAMM Show, the Lennon Bus will be parked on the central Grand
Plaza in front of the Anaheim Convention Center. The Lennon Bus will
offer trade show attendees interactive tours and will showcase the
updated display of state-of-the-art equipment and gear, advanced
recording technology and innovative capabilities.

Highlights include:

●Saturday,
January 26 from 6:00 -7:30 p.m., Elle King headlines the annual John
Lennon Educational Tour Bus Imagine Party with host Derek Smalls,
formerly of the band formerly known as SPINAL TAP.

●Saturday January 26 at 11:30 a.m., Derek Smalls, will host the Lennon Bus Bass Off.
Open to anyone (amateurs and professionals), Smalls will judge
contestants’ bass skills based on their playing, style, showmanship and
unique qualities. The top five finalists will take home Lennon Bus gear
and move on to the finals, which will take place live on stage, opening
for Elle King at the Imagine Party. The winner, picked by Smalls, will
win a Lennon Bus package of over $8,000 worth of gear.

●Thursday,
January 24 – Sunday, January 27, Attendees will be able to win from
over $40,000 worth of Lennon Bus gear, courtesy of Audio-Technica,
Copperpeace, Focusrite, Genelec, Neutrik, K&M, Mackie, OWC,
Propellerhead and Yamaha.

This
year, the 2019 Lennon Bus tour is powered by the latest generation of
Apple computers, including the iMac Pro and high performance MacBook Pro
laptops and iOS devices, including the newest iPad Pro and iPhone XS
models.

Founding
sponsor, Yamaha Corporation of America, is updating the Lennon Bus’
arsenal of keyboards, guitars and drums, and visitors to the Lennon Bus
tents will have the opportunity to play Yamaha’s DTX402K electronic
drums. The interactive tents also feature Audio-Technica’s Creator
Station where visitors participate in an interactive experience using
Audio-Technica’s iOS-compatible AT2020USBi microphone and ATH-M50x
headphones. During select events throughout the year, visitors can
participate in a project entitled “What does peace mean to you?” by
recording their unique answer in the Creator Station. The audio, photos
and b-roll captured for this activation from students of all ages
across the country will lay the foundation for an original short film.

The Lennon Bus’s IT infrastructure has been upgraded by Securematics and now offers multi-gigabit speed Ethernet using a Juniper EX4300 10-gigabit switch and Ruckus Wireless R720 and R610 wireless access points. The new Apple Mac Mini with
its built-in 10-gigabit Ethernet port will utilize this new network
infrastructure to serve files from high-bandwidth Thunderbolt 3 OWC
storage solutions.

(Los Angeles, CA / January 11, 2019) -- Dave’s Room,
the private, high-end recording studio that’s been a part of Los
Angeles’ musical landscape for nearly 50 years, is now booking sessions
at its North Hollywood location.

The
state-of-the-art studio is back in business after the untimely passing
of its prolific owner, Grammy-award winning producer David Bianco, who
in 2007 revitalized the space and created a private recording oasis for
the industry’s most discerning music professionals.

Now producer/engineers Paul Fig and David Spreng have partnered to re-launch
the studio as a tribute to Bianco’s towering legacy. The studio offers a
comfortable, casual and quiet environment where artists, producers and
engineers can congregate to complete the entire process of making an
album – recording, overdubbing and mixing - all under one roof at a
reasonable price, and feel at home while doing it.

Dave’s Room,
which opened in 1970 under the name Mama Jo’s, served as a top studio
for the biggest names in rock, pop, jazz and R&B. “Dave was
committed to preserving the original studio’s aesthetic features and
acoustics while providing his clients with the latest top-of-the-line
recording gear,” says Fig. “It’s very important to us to preserve his
years of hard work and continue his vision in the future.”

Fig
added that the studio’s clients appreciate the warm, analogue quality
of the sound captured digitally in the rooms, designed specifically with
the right amount of absorptive to reflective surfaces to achieve the
precise aural balance they’re looking for. “All booths have a line of
site with each other to make tracking live seamless; the control room is
perfection, designed for critical listening and for making bussing,
equalization and mixing decisions with accuracy… it’s one of my favorite
control rooms for tracking and mixing.”

“Not
only is Dave Bianco’s studio great for tracking, we have added some
great gear and instruments to Bianco’s already impressive collection,”
says Spreng. “New to the arsenal are Vintage Gretsch and Ludwig Drum
kits, tons of snare drums and Fig’s personal collection of newer and
vintage guitars, amps and pedals.”

To find out more about Dave’s Room and book a session, visit Davesroom.net.

Following their successful debut earlier this year in Barbados, Vujaday Music Festival
has returned to announce a stacked phase one lineup in preparation for
their second year. The 2019 edition will take place from April 3-7
and will once again take place in different venues all across the
stunning Caribbean island. This will give festival-goers the chance to
take in a new experience and venue each day.

The phase one lineup for Vujaday 2019 features legendary Welsh DJ and producer Sasha, a DJ set from iconic Canadian electronic duo Bob Moses, Detroit house and techno staple Moodymann, All Day I Dream founder Lee Burridge, a live performance from the Detroit based sibling duo Octave One, Vivrant label founder and renowned Swedish musician Jeremy Olander, Brooklyn house duo Bedouin, Life and Death founder DJ Tennis, Berlin house aficionado YokoO, members of the fan-favorite Desert Hearts collective Mikey Lion and Lee Reynolds, American production duo and Crew Love members Soul Clap, Women on Wax founder DJ Minx, Sheik 'N' Beik founder Rechulski, respected Toronto resident Nitin, and fellow Toronto native and current Barcelona resident Jade.

photo by The Confluence

Many more names will be added to the lineup in the near future.
Vujaday will also be announcing what venues they will be taking over
shortly, and have also announced they will be hosting a new daytime party series
for the first time this year. Details regarding this exciting new
addition to the already jam-packed Vujaday experience will be announced
as the festival nears closer.

Venue highlights from last year included Bellevue Plantation,
a 100-acre property built in 1735 that included a pool, polo fields,
and lush gardens surrounding the property. Another favorite was Cornwall House,
which allowed those in attendance to witness a breathtaking sunrise
while overlooking the gorgeous Eastern Coast of Barbados. Other venues
were located directly on the beach and gave those in attendance the
chance to sink their feet in the sand throughout the event.
With its dedication to providing attendees with an
experience they’ve never seen or felt before, Vujaday pulls all the
stops to create an unforgettable journey for attendees. The event spans
over the course of five days, allowing festival-goers to be fully
immersed into the culture of Barbados while traveling throughout the
island to experience the unique venues that Vujaday takes place at.
Early bird tickets for 2019 are currently on sale and can be purchased here. Super early bird tickets have already sold out. More info about travel and additional details can be found on the Vujaday website, and you can watch their 2018 aftermovie to get a better taste of what the festival has to offer.

CARLSBAD, Calif. – December 19, 2018 -
With just over a month to go until the start of The 2019 NAMM Show, The NAMM Campus is set to come alive with a variety of Bands@NAMM
performers, a Guinness World Record™-breaking instrument, and household names who will share their own unique
mixes of hip-hop and classical, to blues and rock.

On Thursday,
The NAMM Foundation Celebration for Music Educationwill celebrate the advocacy and dedication of NAMM members with a performance from the duo,
Black Violin. Composed of classically trained violist and
violinist Wil B and Kev Marcus, the pair combine their classical
training and hip-hop influences with their DJ to create a distinctive
multi-genre sound that is often described as “classical boom.”
Black Violin has shared stages with top names including Kanye West,
Aerosmith and Tom Petty, and has creatively collaborated with the likes
of Wu-Tang Clan, Wyclef Jean, and Alicia Keys. The duo composed music
for the television series
Pitch which debuted on FOX in 2016, in addition to appearances on HBO’s
Ballers, The Tonight Show, The Wendy Williams Show, The Kate TV, and
The Ellen Show. The group’s most recent record, Stereotypes, debuted at #1 on the Billboard Classical Crossover Chart and #4 on the Billboard R&B Chart.

On Friday, an all-star line-up from Yamaha promises an unforgettable multi-artist extravaganza with the “Yamaha All-Star Concert on the
Grand 2019” set to crank up the volume to 11. While the artist
lineup for this year’s concert remains a secret, Yamaha has built an
unmatched reputation for developing and producing the largest and most
energetic concert events at past NAMM Shows. Last
year’s concert featured star turns by celebrated artists Melissa
Etheridge, Sam Moore, Michael McDonald, Butch Walker, Lindsey Stirling,
Marc Broussard, and Sheléa. Past concerts have included such artist
luminaries as Elton John, Stevie Wonder, Tony Bennett,
John Legend, Earth, Wind & Fire, U2 founder and drummer Larry
Mullen, Jr., and many others.

On Saturday evening at the annual “Imagine Party,”
The NAMM Foundation and The
John Lennon Educational Tour Bus presented by Other World Computing will welcome singer and songwriter, Elle King. King blends
pop, blues, and rock ‘n’ roll into a sound that’s all her own. After
hearing the all-girl
pop-punk band The Donnas when she was nine years old in Ohio, she
decided she wanted to be a singer and musician. By 13, she was playing
guitar, and later learned to play the banjo. After signing to RCA
Records, she released The Elle King EP which
featured the “Mob Wives Chicago” theme song “Playing For Keeps.”

In 2015, King released her debut album Love Stuff,
featuring the hit single “Ex’s & Oh’s” which reached the top of
Billboard’s Alternative Songs chart.
She made chart history becoming the second female artist in 18 years to
reach #1 at Alternative Radio, and “Ex’s & Oh’s” earned Elle two
GRAMMY nominations. She was also featured on Dierks Bentley’s
GRAMMY-nominated No. 1 Country Airplay hit “Different For
Girls” (she performed it with Bentley at the CMA Awards and took home
an award for “Musical Event of the Year”). Her just-released follow-up album Shake The Spirit features
the lead single “Shame,” which became her fourth radio #1 single and
led Elle
to become the only act in history to have scored number 1 singles on
the Adult Pop Songs, Adult Alternative Songs, Alternative Songs, and
Country Airplay charts.

On Saturday and Sunday, the Arena Plaza will feature the
Earth Harp,
the world’s longest playable stringed instrument, that will reach from
the balcony of the
ACC North building to the Plaza. The harp will be played live by its
creator William Close, the LA-based inventor who holds the Guinness Book
of World Records for the largest stringed instrument in the world.

Close regularly tours the globe with his instrument, which has been performed at
The Kennedy Center in Washington, DC, a cathedral in Portugal, at Festivals in Portugal, France, Mexico, Canada and more.
Close will be on hand to offer educational facts about the cello-like
instrument including the science behind it, how it was constructed and
how it’s played. Live performances are set throughout the day for the
instrument that includes strings extending 1,000
feet in length.